Wired Photo Contest: Amusement Parks

‘Tis the season for cotton candy and corn dogs, G-forces and sunburns. Amusement parks are on summer agendas all across the country, and in honor of this wholesome American pastime, we’d like to see your best photos from these caloric carnivals of controlled chaos.

Use the Reddit widget below to submit your best amusement-park photo and vote for your favorite among the other submissions. The 10 highest-ranked photos will appear in a gallery on the Wired.com homepage on June 16. Show us the view from the Ferris wheel at night, adolescent crushes at the snow-cone stand and the constipated faces of high-speed coaster riders. Show us the belly-bomber cuisines and haunted-house automatons. Make us wish we were there.

The photo must be your own, and by submitting it you are giving us permission to use it on Wired.com and in Wired magazine. Please submit images that are relatively large, the ideal size being 800 pixels to 1,200 pixels or larger on the longest side. Please include a description of your photo, which may include exposure information, equipment used, etc.

We don’t host the photos, so you’ll have to upload it somewhere else and submit a link to it. If you’re using Flickr, Picasa or another photo-sharing site to host your image, please provide a link to the image directly and not just to the photo page where it’s displayed. Using an online photo service that requires a login will not work. If your photo doesn’t show up, it’s because the URL you have entered is incorrect. Check it and make sure it ends with the image file name (XXXXXX.jpg).

Please bookmark this page and check back periodically over the next week to vote on new submissions! Finalists will be selected on June 15.